A critical thinking instruction program (ARDESOS-DIAPROVE) improved students' metacognition, with significant pre-post gains in the metaknowledge total and most MAI dimensions¶
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q2 i? After the 16-week ARDESOS-DIAPROVE intervention, first-year psychology students' total MAI metaknowledge scores rose significantly (t = -4.161, p = 0.000). → Rivas SF 2022
q2 i? The knowledge factor and its declarative, procedural, and conditional dimensions all showed significantly higher post-test medians. → Rivas SF 2022
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Rivas SF 2022¶
Rivas SF, Saiz C and Ossa C (2022) Metacognitive Strategies and Development of Critical Thinking in Higher Education. Front. Psychol. 13:913219. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.913219
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Quasi-experimental pre-post study of 89 first-year psychology students; Student's t-tests compared pre and post MAI measurements (Table 3 reports TOT_MAI t = -4.161, p = 0.000). The article reports "significant differences in the metaknowledge scale total" with all post medians higher.
"The results show that there are significant differences in the metaknowledge scale total and in most of its dimensions, where all the post medians for both the scale overall and for the three dimensions of the knowledge factor (declarative, procedural, and conditional) are higher than the pre-medians."
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A critical thinking instruction program (ARDESOS-DIAPROVE) improved students' metacognition, with significant pre-post gains in the metaknowledge total and most MAI dimensions |
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A critical thinking instruction program (ARDESOS-DIAPROVE) improved students' metacognition, with significant pre-post gains in the metaknowledge total and most MAI dimensions |
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